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Jackie Robinson : race, sports, and the American dream / edited by Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Dorinson, Joseph, 1936-, Warmund, Joram, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, ©2015.
Subjects:
Robinson, Jackie, > 1919-1972 > Congresses.
Baseball players > United States > Biography > Congresses.
African American baseball players > Biography > Congresses.
Discrimination in sports > United States > Congresses.
Robinson, Jackie, > 1919-1972.
African American baseball players.
Baseball players.
Discrimination in sports.
United States.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • Jackie, do they know? An ode to Jackie Robinson / Tom (Tommy) Hawkins
  • Introduction / Joseph Dorinson, Joram Warmund
  • In the eye of the storm : 1947 in world perspective / Joram Warmund
  • Men of conscience / Peter Golenbock
  • Moses Fleetwood Walker : Jackie Robinson's accidental predecessor / Sidney Gendin
  • Monte Irvin : up from sharecropping / Jack B. Moore
  • It happened in Brooklyn : reminiscences of a fan / Robert Gruber
  • The interborough iliad / Peter Williams.
  • Father and son at Ebbets Field / Peter Levine
  • A ten-year-old Dodger fan welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn / Ivan W. Hametz
  • Mah nishtanah / Henry Foner
  • Baseball on the radical agenda : the Daily worker and Sunday worker journalistic campaign to desegregate Major League baseball, 1933-1947 / Kelly E. Rusinack
  • White Dodgers, Black Dodgers / Lester Rodney
  • Robinson--Robeson / Bill Mardo
  • Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson : race, identity, and ethnic power / Joseph Dorinson.
  • Burt Shotton : the crucible of 1947 / Robert A. Moss
  • Jackie Robinson on opening day, 1947-1956 / Lyle Spatz
  • Jackie Robinson and the third age of modern baseball / David Shiner
  • Jackie Robinson and the emancipation of Latin American baseball players / Samuel O. Regalado
  • The two titans and the mystery man : Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers partners, 1944-1950 / Lee Lowenfish
  • Robinson in 1947 : measuring an uncertain impact / Henry D. Fetter.
  • "Do not go gently into that good night" : race, the baseball establishment, and the retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson / Ron Briley
  • Kareem's omission? Jackie Robinson, Black profile in courage / Patrick Henry
  • Should we rely on the marketplace to end discrimination? What the integration of baseball tells us / Robert Cherry
  • Greetings / Carl Erskine
  • Keynote address / Roger Rosenblatt.

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